On July 16^th, China Brand Research Institute issued 2008 Report on Brand Competitive Force. According to the report, the competitive force of 92 famous brands in Chinese market presented declined tendency in the past year, while Sany Heavy Industry kept uprising tendency.

This was the first dynamic survey report for competitive force of brands in China, in which totally 300 domestic brands and 100 foreign brands were evaluated. The evaluation indicators mainly included price premium ability (brand satisfaction and appointed purchase), bank credit, industrial position (market share), profitable level of main business, advertisement effect and capital market (market value and brand value), bank credit, industrial position (market share), profitable level of main industry, ad effect and evaluation of capital market (market value and brand value).

According to the evaluation, the overall competitive force of domestic brands was not as strong as foreign ones.

Among 92 brands with declining competitive force, including 19 foreign brands such as LG, Motorola and 73 domestic brands such as Changhong and Xugong, the declining margin of some brands even exceeded 10%.

Meanwhile, there were another 208 brands with uprising competition strength.

As a leading enterprise of construction machinery industry in China, Sany Heavy Industry undertakes the task of changing the world by quality, engaging in the technological upgrade of construction machinery in China. Through internationalized strategy of walking out, the enterprise increases 60%-80% annually, keeping strong competitive force. As the listed company with the highest market value in construction machinery, Sany was titled as the vane of stock market with excellent brand fame. In 2006, Sany ranked as No.49 with increasing margin of 16% among Top 100 Brands At Home and Abroad with Highest Increasing Margin, and was honored as China Top 100 Credited Brands of Most Valuable Civil-owned Enterprises. In June, 2008, Sany was appraised to be Symbolized Brand of Chinese Construction Machinery Industry by China Brand Research Institute. At the same time, Chairman of the Board of Sany Liang Wengen was also listed into the China 30 Brand Masters.

About Sany

SANY Group Co. Ltd was established in 1989, with associated companies including SANY Heavy Industry Co. Ltd, SANY Heavy Machine Industry Co. Ltd and SANY Auto Manufacture Co. Ltd. SANY Heavy Industry Co. Ltd was established in 1994 and has since become the group's core company. We are one of the mainland's largest manufacturers of large-volume pumps, with achievements that include being the first mainland China manufacturer to produce truck-mounted concrete pumps. We also manufacture concrete placing booms, concrete mixers, excavators, motor graders and vibratory rollers. We currently serve clients in more than 100 countries worldwide, and are publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (A-Listed).

Our facilities cover a total area of 200,000 square meters and are staffed by more than 12,000 employees. We have the largest share of the domestic market for trailer-mounted concrete pumps, truck-mounted concrete pumps, and 18-T full hydraulic vibratory rollers. This makes us one of the three most influential construction engineering equipment manufacturers in mainland China. In the last three years, we were successfully maintaining an annual growth rate of over 40 percent.

Our trailer-mounted concrete pumps have broken the world record several times for pumping height. In 2002, our trailer-mounted concrete pumps pumped C60 concrete to a height of 406 meters in the construction of the Hong Kong International Financial Center. In 2004, our pumps played an important role in the construction of the Dubai Tower, the world's tallest skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates.